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1. Get a group of friends together with similar reading tastes. 2. Create a new shared Google account. 3. Share books. 4. Profit? (Any reasons this wouldn
by msluyter 16y ago
1. Get a group of friends together with similar reading tastes.
2. Create a new shared Google account.
3. Share books.
4. Profit? (Any reasons this wouldn't work?)
- simonsarris 16y agoAssuming they will restrict the account to signing on from one location at a time, it would be the equivalent of loaning others books in e-readers that allow it. Or the equivalent of a bunch of people sharing a Steam account.
- troymc 16y agoYou might start reading a book on your computer at home in the morning, and you might leave that open as you rush off to work. You might open a second copy on your e-reader as you go to work, and so on. Therefore there are natural use cases where you have the same Google account logged into Google ebooks on multiple devices at the same time. Therefore Google must allow for those use cases. Those use cases can be mimicked by friends sharing a Google account. Google could check for obvious misuse. For example, they could look for two devices separated by a large distance and using the same Google account with Google ebooks at the same time. I know they already do something like that with Gmail (for a different reason).
- simonsarris 16y agoIn those cases it can auto-logout of the previously connected platforms, the same way Steam does.
- troymc 16y agoWhat if I'm writing a paper on the books of Bill Bryson, I want to have In a Sunburned Country open on my MacBook, and I want to have Notes from a Small Island open on my iPhone (at the same time)? There are legitimate reasons to have two devices logged into Google ebooks with the same account at the same time. Video games are different. Few people play two video games at the same time.
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